 With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach...  The New Mirror - Page 332edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | John McRae - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 172 pages
...objectivity, humour, acceptance? When might it have been written? How can you tell? Text: Poem (v) (v) With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread 5 Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She... | |
 | Rohan Amanda Maitzen - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 254 pages
...poem "The Song of the Shirt," published in Punch in 1843: "With fingers weary and worn," it begins. With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly...rags. Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt. And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the 'Song of... | |
 | Renny Christopher, Lisa Orr, Linda J. Strom - Education - 1998 - 276 pages
...in the first poem are those workers who find labor a form of drudgery: With fingers weary and warn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly...rags. Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song oj... | |
 | Roger Rosenblatt - Nature - 2006 - 248 pages
...living circumstances of factory workers and aroused the public's sympathy, as well as Hood's. He wrote: With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone... | |
 | Paul Negri - Poetry - 1999 - 244 pages
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